According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In writing,
Greek icon of Saint Anne with the Virgin, by Angelos Akotantos (c. 1420–1450)
Masolino and Masaccio, Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (c. 1424), Uffizi, Florence
Birth of St. Anne, by Adriaen van Overbeke (c. 1521–1525)
Church of St. Anne in Jerusalem, c. 1140
The Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Debated by mediev
Saint Anne
…similar to that of Samuel, whose mother Hannah (Hebrew: חַנָּה Ḥannāh "favour, grace"; etymologically the same name as Anne) had also been childless. The Immaculate Conception was eventually made dogma by the Catholic Church following an increased devotion to Anne in the twelfth century. Dedications to Anne in Eastern…
The Immaculate Conception (1767–1769) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Altar of the Immaculata by Joseph Lusenberg, 1876, representing Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, at Saint Antony's Church, Urtijëi, Italy
Our Lady of Lourdes's 9th apparition, 25 February 1858, by Virgilio Tojett (1877), after Bernadette Soubirous' description. Soubirous claimed the Lady identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception".
The procession of the Quadrittu of the Immaculate Conception taken on December 7 in Saponara, Sicily